Tag: Your Name

July 18, 2017 · 0 comments

By Tom Smith. What’s a Radwimps? Only one of the hottest bands from Japan right now, that’s what! I don’t mean it lightly, either. Radwimps have been huge for years, long before their songs ended up part of Japan’s second-highest grossing film ever, Your Name. Before the film’s release, all eight of their studio albums […]

May 29, 2017 · 0 comments

The MCM London Comic Con weekend has been and gone and a big thank you to everyone who came by our booth and attended our panels/events we involved with during the event. This Newswire will be different from the norm as it’s purely just a roundup of announcements that were made over the course of […]

March 4, 2017 · 1 comment

By Andrew Osmond. If you have Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away to hand, look at a bit of the film about twenty minutes in. It’s after Chihiro has lost her parents, been saved and abandoned by Haku, and is descending to the bathhouse to look for the spider man Kamaji. You may remember the funny-scary scene […]

February 3, 2017 · 0 comments

Jasper Sharp crunches the numbers. On 25th January, the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, or Eiren, released the Japanese box office figures for 2016, affording us our regular annual opportunity to cast our eyes back with an anime-centric overview of the trends and developments over the past twelve months and predict what they might […]

January 25, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. The Animated Oscar nominee list was announced yesterday and – in the main headline for most anime fans – Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name wasn’t on it. It was a disappointment, though not very surprising. While the film’s astonishing box-office in Japan and China got it some press coverage in America, it’s unlikely […]